I remember this movie. I kind of love movies about evil truckers that track down drivers on the highways of America. I think its because its a subculture that is kind of interesting and you can almost see it happening to someone driving cross country. Truckers are a different breed (probably a big over generalization), but I think its a cool sub genre.

I saw this on t.v. a couple of weeks ago and had to watch it, too. I used to watch this all the time as a kid. It was back when vcr's were first catching on, and this was one of the first tapes we had back then.

I LOVE Duel... I saw it on TV in grade school, and it was one of the first films where I was aware of "the director"... and how important he was to the final product (I had of course seen Jaws by then, and could see traces of Jaws in Duel). If they remade this today, they'd totally wreck it. They'd have some sexy twenty-something at the wheel ('cause who wants to watch a nerdy middle aged man for 90 minutes)? They'd give the truck driver some unnecessary back story to explain why he's pyscho (like he's the son of a guy that the main character's dad killed in a truck-driving accident years earlier...) Oh--and the driver would be jabbering on his hands-free wireless device throughout the whole movie, cause who want's to hear a guy talking (or thinking) to himself?